SRINAGAR: Taking instant cognizance of the killing of a minor girl due to explosion of littered shell in Central Kashmirs Budgam district, State Human Rights Commission Wednesday served notices to Director General of Police, J&K, Deputy Commissioner Budgam and concerned Army Unit that carried out military ills in Tosa Maidan.
SHRC acting chairman Rafiq Fida has said that many news papers carried out the story pertaining to the death of a minor girl due to a littered shell and these news reports prima facie make out a case of serious and grave human rights violations.
Quoting the caption of a particular news paper, Minor girl killed, brother loses legs in shell blast, people hit streets in protest, want Army out from meadow, SHRC said that
the newspaper reported that a minor girl was killed while her brother, also a minor, received critical injuries after an unexploded shell went off in a village near Tosamaidan firing range in District Budgam on Monday (May 19).
The acting chairman SHRC stated that nobody was allowed to play with the lives of people in Kashmir like this. Army is a disciplined force which can never be expected to litter live shells like a trash of paper anywhere and particularly in the residential areas. It is one of their incumbent duties to clear all the explosive remnants from the firing range and its adjacent areas, so that any unfortunate accidents of loss of life, be it human or cattle, are averted, it said.
SHRC lamented that the incidents like this one speak volumes about how the officers of the concerned Army units are negligent in taking care of live shells and leave the same abandoned in the adjacent areas of the firing range as a result of which such incidents are bound to take place.
Taking Suo Moto cognizance in the matter and treating news reports as complaint, the Commission Wednesday issued notices to Director General of Police, J&K, Deputy Commissioner Budgam and concerned Army Unit. Father of the deceased and injured kids Reyaz Ahmad Parrey has also been directed to appear on the next date of hearing fixed on June 5 and file correct statement of facts regarding the incident.
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